And o'er me magnify themselves, den
When as my foot doth slide.

17 For I am near to halt, my grief
Is still before mine eye:

18 For I'll declare my sin, and grieve
For mine iniquity.

19 But yet mine en'mies lively are, it
And strong are they beside;di
And they that hate me wrongfully
Are greatly multiply'd.

20 And they for good that render ill,
As en mies me withstood;

Yea, ev'n for this, because that I
Do follow what is good.

21 Forsake me not, O Lord; my God,
Far from me never be.

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22 O Lord, thou my salvation art,
Haste to give help to me. I

PSALM XXXIX.

THIS Psalm seems a CO of the last;

and

the illustration may be the same. See particularly

the next.

1.

Behold the Lamb of God decreed,
Before the world began to be,

For all the w

For all the flock of God to bleed,
That they might by his blood go free!
When his appointed hour was come,
No murm ring from his spirit broke:
A Lamb before his shearers dumb,

He bore the sin-avenging stroke.

SAID, I will look to my ways, i
Lest with my tongue I sin::o

In sight of wicked men my mouth

With bridle, I'll keep in, o siopa

2 With silence I as dumb became,

I did myself restrain

From speaking good; but then the more
Increased was my pain.

3 My heart within me waxed hot:
And, while I musing was,

The fire did burn; and from my tongue
These words I did let pass:

4 Mine end, and measure of my days,
O Lord, unto me show

What is the same; that I thereby
My frailty well may know.

5 Lo, thou my days an handbreadth mad'st; Mine age is in thine eye

As nothing: sure each man at best
Is wholly vanity.

6 Sure each man walks in a vain show;
They vex themselves in vain:

He heaps up wealth, and doth not know
To whom it shall pertain.

7 And now, O Lord, what wait I for?
My hope is fix'd on thee.

8 Free me from all my trespasses,
The fool's scorn make not me.
9 Dumb was I, op'ning not my mouth,
Because this work was thine.

10 Thy stroke take from me; by the blow
Of thine hand I do pine.

11 When with rebukes thou dost correct
Man for iniquity,

Thou wastes his beauty like a moth:
Sure each man's vanity.

12 Attend my cry, Lord, at my tears
And pray'rs not silent be:
I sojourn as my fathers all,
And stranger am with thee.

13 O spare thou me that I my strength Recover may again, her low

Before from hence I do depart,

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And here no more remain. bereogant

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DPSALM XL.

THIS Psalm is a mine of gold to the true worshippers, who worship God in the spirit, and in the truth, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh; and, as explained by the Holy Ghost in the xth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, may ve as an infallible F KEY to all the rest of the Psalms. -After what has been already suggested from the Scriptures to to the common sense of mankind, in the general preface, it may be reckoned superfluous to say any more; only the reader r may notice, once for all, what a false light he follows, when he regards the contents prefixed to the top of each Psalm,, (not to speak any more of the commentators, who are all of one spirit), by comparing them with the unquestionable New-Testament interpretations: witness, this Psalm, the xvith, xxiid, and lxixth-For parallels, Psalm and verse, consult the references on the mar gin: see especially the following, all precisely (as this) spoken in one person, and of the same spirit and strain of expression; viz. Psalms xvi. xxii. xxv. xxvii. xxx. xxxi. xxxv. xxxviii. xxxix. xli. xlii. xliii. 1. li, Įvii. lxi. Ixix. lxx. lxxi. cxix. cxxxix. &c.

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No sacrifice nor off'rings were
Sufficient to remove the guilt;

No sin-atonement could be there,

Where only cattle's blood was spilt a
Then, lo, EMMANUEL thus did say,

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I'le, O God, to do thy will;

the sins of men away,

And lead them to thy holy hill.

* Prose Psalms of the Bible.

WAITED for the Lord my God, 77@
And patiently did bear

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At length to me he did inclineb nout ..I
My voice and cry to hear bonitosí
2 He took me from a fearful pit,
And from the miry clay,
And on a rock he set my feet,
Establishing my way.

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3 He put a new song in my mouth, T
Our God to magnify::oyed bolace to
Many shall see it, and shall fear,moï 10/
And on the Lord rely. vil id oral
40 blessed is the man whose trust,
Upon the Lord relies

Respecting not the proud, nor such
As turn to lies.

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50 Lord my God, full many areng

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in Si The wonders thou hast done in bra Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward farbu Above all thoughts are gone

In order none can reckon them out ofT
To thee: if them declare,

And speak of them I

Would, they more SI
Than can be number'd are. I

6 No sacrifice nor offering Cuo bus b'arde 44
Didst thou at all desire; dotsďT
Mine ears thou bor'd: sin-off'ring thou
And burnt didst not require:

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7 Then to the Lord these were my words,
I come, behold and see; boto')
Within the volume of the book titedT
It written is of me:

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8 To do thy will I take delightin 19 al 01
O thou my God that art guide od 77
Yea, that most holy law of thine 7 of N
I have within my heart. od bo o!T

9 Within the congregation great
I righteousness did preach:
Lo, thou dost know, O Lord, that I
Refrained not my speech.

10 I never did within my heart

Conceal thy righteousness; i
I thy salvation have declar'd,

And shewn thy faithfulness:
Thy kindness which most loving is,
Concealed have not I,

Nor from the congregation great
Have hid thy verity.

11 Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me
Ŏ do thou not restrain:

Thy loving-kindness and thy truth,
Let them me still maintain.

12 For ills past reck'ning compass me,
And mine iniquities a

Such hold upon me taken haveplang
I cannot lift mine
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They more than hairs are on mine head,
Thence is mine heart dismay'd.

13 Be pleased, Lord, to rescue me;
Lord, hasten to mine aid.'

14 Sham'd and confounded be they all

That seek my soul to kill;fi tá
Yea, let them backward driven be

And sham'd that wish me illi A

15 For a reward of this their shame "T" Confounded let them be,

That in this manner scoffing say,

Aha, aha! to me.

16 In thee let all be glad, and joy, it ch CT S Who seeking thee abide; vuo67 0 Who thy salvation love, say still,ts.it .? The Lord be magnify'd.archiw sved 1